"Ical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is followed by two or more syllables, the tendency of accent is to shorten the vowel. Thus we have grammat'ical, etc., in which the short vowel in the accented syllable is followed by a single consonant not doubled. The word na'tion (with a long a) becomes na'tional (short a) when the addition of a syllable throws the accent on to ...
— The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language - Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric • Sherwin Cody |
